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Sequence 85participating in job training programs. A large number of our children come from homes where one or more adults abuse drugs or… |
Sequence 152Personals ALASKA The JUNEAU MONTESSORI CENTER, located downtown in Alaska's capital city, is recruiting for an AMS/… |
Sequence 142Don't call it Montessori. If it works along Montessori lines, that is good. But there is no Montessori method for the… |
Sequence 7EDITORIAL REINVENTING MONTESSORI: PERILS AND POSSIBILITIES by David Kahn To what degree is the fundamental test of… |
Sequence 71WHOLE LANGUAGE IN nm MONTESSORI CLASSROOM: CONTINUING THE STORY by Margaret Loeffler, Ph.D. In this talk presented to… |
Sequence 673. Economic Development-How have societies organized themselves economically? What conditions have caused changes in the ways… |
Sequence 156Zigler, PhD, Sterling Psychology Professor at Yale University and one of the founders of Head Start. This conference will… |
Sequence 33THE DEVELOPMENTAL CRISES OF THE FIRST THREE YEARS by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro, M.D. Introduction In our growth… |
Sequence 13Where are they located? One school is in Canada, one in Mexico, and 31 in the United States. Nine schools are east of the… |
Sequence 58Among the Poor (10) • adopt a needy family • deli,·er ChrisLmas food baskeLS, serve Thanksg1nng meals, food for the needy,… |
Sequence 68• At the same time, we need Lo decide as a group of Montessori schools \, hat our target is in the clevcloprnenl of adolescent… |
Sequence 74fact accounts for the spread of this approach to 49 of the 50 states and to other English-speaking countries, in both public… |
Sequence 9viewed her educational principles from the very start as anything less than a contribution to the whole planet. Accordingly,… |
Sequence 27Maria Montessori died in 1952, but her work continues. Today there are close to five thousand private and approximately two… |
Sequence 50is try or physics, and you cannot study life without its environ- ment, which brings us to geography. But then again, you… |
Sequence 51For the second quote, we find: "The child's intelligence ... a fertile field in which seeds may be sown"… |
Sequence 237inclusive community, not one that divides them in order to conquer, but one that unifies them in order to set them free. I… |
Sequence 254Supportive administration as well as primary and lower elementary staff. Small class size, beautiful cam- pus setting,… |
Sequence 172DISCOVERING THE HIDDEN PERSON by Rita Zener and Laura Noriega Ezcurdia Capturing the optimism of normalization theory, the… |
Sequence 256to you is that the traditional paradigm of explaining Western culture to students, that is, the multicultural approach, I find… |
Sequence 258most ridiculed people in Greek literature because they smell, they're cranky, they have coarse language. But all… |
Sequence 264He said, "This is just terrible." I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He… |
Sequence 267told by the local EPA that he had some type of wild rat colony on his farm. The man was farming his land, and he had to cease… |
Sequence 351organization of story, logic, and truth, which comes to the inevitable realization that to serve is to balance one's… |
Sequence 1THE Vol. 23, No. 2 Spring 1998 NAMTA Mario Montessori: In Search of a Deeper Freedom Introduction by David Kahn Respect… |
Sequence 8universe; for one must encounter the facts of nature so that the imagination can build its vision of the whole based in the… |
Sequence 32Kodaikanal, India THE IMPACT OF INDIA by Mario M. Montessori Looking back on the checkered life of Dr. Montessori in this… |
Sequence 40Kodaikanal, India THE KooAIKANAL EXPERIENCE: KAHN-MONTESSORI INTERVIEW by David Kahn David Kahn: You once alluded to… |
Sequence 41of creation should fashion that the e it but absorb it i h~y will feel that o lace to live in, a p ace w ere generosity… |
Sequence 45had its cosmic task. And some of these tasks were not pleasant for human beings. The children might consider the task horrible… |
Sequence 46contained by a cylinder, it pushes together. When you take the sides of the cylinder off, it pushes together. Then you… |
Sequence 47Montessori: Yes. In the olden times, Dr. Montessori had the children up to six, and then from time to time would keep children… |
Sequence 50Kodaikanal, India THE UNCONSCIOUS IN HISTORY by Maria Montessori In the book The Absorbent Mind, the influence of the &… |
Sequence 61ing fourteen leaf-shaped insets with wooden frames. The study of leaves launched the children into a detailed and particular… |
Sequence 11DISCOVERING THE REAL SPIRITUAL CHILD (PART 1) by Sofia Cavalletti Sofia Cavalletti cites Montessori's description of… |
Sequence 21Two TRIBUTES To SoFIA CAVALLETTI The following tributes were presented to Sofia c.avalletti at the NAMT A conference entitled… |
Sequence 41AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT Evidence of the suitability of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd for children of diverse cultures… |
Sequence 43THE TOTONACA PEOPLE AND THE CATECHESIS OF THE GooD SHEPHERD by Maria Christlieb Robles Illustrating the spread of the… |
Sequence 176ANTI-CONSUMERISM RESOURCES Consumer Alert 1001 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 1128 Washington DC 20036 202-467-5809 fax 202-… |
Sequence 22If you can't look him straight in the eye. He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest, For he's with… |
Sequence 124THE CHILD AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT by Molly O'Shaughnessy Molly O'Shaughnessy has written a definitive article… |
Sequence 219Creativity is vital. It's easy to overlook. But it's easy and fun to use when you have the right spirit and the… |
Sequence 246OBITUARY MARIA CHRISTLIEB ROBLES Both the Montessori community and the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd lost a friend,… |
Sequence 13selected fifteen from those who were nominated, and we spent a week in Mexico, in Akumal, a small resort on the Caribbean… |
Sequence 85In October, 1939, Maria and Mario, her son, landed in Madras, south India, guests of George Arundale, President of the… |
Sequence 86The Greek word cosmic has four complementary and interwoven meanings. On its basic level, it means order and harmony; then… |
Sequence 87The third thing we should understand is that elementary children were full partners in the creation of cosmic education. The… |
Sequence 261Persons involved in teacher train- ing are also invited to contact Prairie Hill for infonna tion regarding spon- sorship… |
Sequence 91ment. Knowledge is what the human mind strives to acquire and what gives the child a rewarding life. MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE… |
Sequence 98REFERENCES Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, & Kevin Rathunde. "The Devel- opment of the Person: An Experiential… |
Sequence 84revealed to the recipient in spite of his having taken the precaution, before eating, to hide the accompanying letter under a… |
Sequence 189ment.45minutestoTuscon,30min- utes to Mexico. Here is an opportu- nity to give the best of yourself and celebrate your… |
Sequence 319ideas of Erdkinder out of this milieu is the thesis that the documenta- tion in this paper seeks to demonstrate. She as much… |
Sequence 321road to achieving economic independence." A big difference, perhaps the largest difference, of the Erdkinder when… |
Sequence 322from fairly affluent families who ran away from home for the thrill of becoming street musicians and earnjng a few pennies on… |
Sequence 326really meant is often arduous work and could potentially make prac- tical implementation more complicated, but in our desire… |
Sequence 352you look at the long history of the West, that's the fight for the Western soul, and usually the period of the classical… |
Sequence 353start to see that Mexico developed in a way that did not completely embrace this Western paradigm. I can tell you that… |
Sequence 354was very well-meaning. But as soon as people got capital for them- selves, what did they do with it? Did they go out and buy… |
Sequence 361I said, "Yeah, democracy can be a terrible thing." He just stopped. He said, "What did you say?… |
Sequence 364and was put in jail and they confiscated his tractor-a big scandal in the southern San Joaquin Valley. About that same time in… |
Sequence 97THE DEVELOPMENT OF COORDINATED MOVEMENT by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro discusses the stages of movement in… |
Sequence 220THE ASSISTANT TO INFANCY: A SPECIAL EDUCATOR by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro introduces the origins of the… |
Sequence 57There are different ways to look at cosmic education and at the cosmic vision. One that Montessori talks about is how we… |
Sequence 60Figure 10. Figure 11. Figure 10 is done by a five- year-old child who never had the presentations of the cosmic cross, and… |
Sequence 143trembled in the morning sun. They were golden, translu- cent, amazing sheaves of wheat. The light drove down the shafts of… |
Sequence 153Hoffman, E. Visions of Innocence. Boston: Shambhala Pub- lications, 1992. Huchingson, J. E. (Ed.) Religion and the Natural… |
Sequence 193better. So if I had been looking at birds instead of baseball .. .I Jove basebalJ and I want to goto the Mariners game tonight… |
Sequence 7A MONTESSORI LIFE AS A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY-PART 1 by Silvana Quattrocchi Montanaro Dr. Montanaro speaks of how Montessori… |
Sequence 23context provided by the psychological planes of development, it was easier to see the materials as part of a whole rather than… |
Sequence 226with his back to my table just where my lighted cigarette was protrud- ing beyond the edge and burned the elegant beige linen… |
Sequence 255Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi jointly worked out a program that seemed to correspond to the needs of the various ages,… |
Sequence 257Of the many things that I have heard and read during the days following Gianna Gobbi's death, I particularly like what a… |
Sequence 160THE GREAT RIVER by Baiba Krumins Grazzini The Great River is sometimes referred to as a metaphor for human unity, which has… |
Sequence 43taught by Spanish speakers and given to Spanish speakers in a Spanish-speaking country, so I decided I needed to learn Spanish… |
Sequence 182MONTESSORI WITHOUT BORDERS by Silvia C. Dubovoy Based on her contact with the United Nations and Educateurs sans Frontieres… |
Sequence 198CONCRETIZING COSMIC EDUCATION IN INDIA: A MONTESSORI HISTORICAL ACCOUNT by Ela Eckert Ela Eckert's detailed account of… |
Sequence 205House and a Montessori elementary school were from the beginning and for many decades an explicit part of the educational… |
Sequence 207classes existed for students from the ages of six to twelve, but in Kodaikanal Maria Montessori developed cosmic education as… |
Sequence 208about this: " ... when coming to Kodaikanal, a whole new world opened up for Mario. He was mostly experimenting and… |
Sequence 209Because of its seclusion, the population of Kodai grew slowly despite the favorable climate, and always there were many more… |
Sequence 210and finally abandoned. Remaining are unique archives with histori- cal documents about the Jesuit missionaries in southern… |
Sequence 211children, the Swedish and the Jewish school, as well as a few Catholic schools for the children of Tamil families. How was… |
Sequence 212opened a small school, where she began working with four children and eventually, together with other Indian women, cared for… |
Sequence 213Maria Montessori probably was notable to appreciate the unusual diversity of nature with the same open-mindedness with which… |
Sequence 214Museum of the Sacred Heart College, founded by two priests between 1920 and 1940, was frequently visited by both Montessoris… |
Sequence 215attempts I made to dig out information about Maria Montessori's stay and work in Koda i. My inquiries were frequent! y… |
Sequence 216found herself for a time in a frustrating professional isolation: no official notice or acknowledgement of her work, no… |
Sequence 218switched to the KIS, where her parents worked) responsible for her lifelong interest in learning and education is quite… |
Sequence 224between human beings and the cosmos comes up over and over again. For that reason, Maria Montessori, with her discourses about… |
Sequence 225-------------------------------- ---- and Hindu religion deepened, the cosmic idea came to the fore. Shankar Dutta Panday, a… |
Sequence 226On the other hand: The gradually concretized splendid vision of a cosmic education developing into a comprehensive didactic… |
Sequence 228Millier, F. Max. Einleitung in die Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft-Vier Vorlesungen und zwei Essays, gehalten an der… |
Sequence 22on a collective basis. The farm's profits, if any, are, for the most part, sown back into the students' next group… |
Sequence 119premise: Socialization is central to who we are as human beings. It's the reason for our big brains. My second premise… |
Sequence 328Students learning about native pottery in Xochicalco, Mexico 320 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 31, No. 1 • Winter 2006 |
Sequence 329THE HIGH SCHOOL, NOBLE CHARACTERISTICS, AND PEACE by Guadalupe Borbolla Guadalupe Borbolla's humanities outline goes… |
Sequence 330First and Second Dimensions The first and second dimensions aie subjects that encompass academic materials required in the… |
Sequence 391I would like to present two examples of Little Communities as prepared environments: Colegio Montessori de Tepoztlan in Mexico… |
Sequence 392that help protect the environment. Montessori understood young adolescents, their spiritual attraction, their keen humanistic… |